Neville Goddard on Amos 6:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Amos 6 in context

Scripture Focus

12Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

13Ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

Amos 6:12-13

Biblical Context

Amos 6:12-13 exposes a people who lean on outward strength, turning true judgment into bitterness and the fruit of righteousness into poison, while boasting of horns gained by their own power. Their delight in a thing of nought reveals a misalignment of inner discernment with divine order.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you the rock is the unshakable awareness—the I AM that does not bend to fear or need. When the mind imagines horses running on a rock or oxen plowing there, it reveals an ego attempting to enforce outcomes by force rather than by inner conviction. This is turning judgment into gall: the inner faculty of discernment becomes bitter when yoked to personal will. And the fruit of righteousness becomes hemlock when symbols of virtue are relied on rather than the living principle behind them. Rejoicing in a thing of nought and boasting of horns by our own strength show not power but confusion: the horns are the ego's claim to autonomy, the belief that reality is made by straining. The cure is simple: acknowledge the inner law as the one governor; let belief settle into quiet trust that the I AM orchestrates life through right perception. When you revise from struggle to alignment and feel the presence of the I AM as your immediate circumstance, judgment becomes clarity and righteousness flows as health. You are not held by external outcomes but by an inner, eternal order.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine standing firmly on an inner rock. Silently declare, I AM the source of true discernment; I revise every claim of strength as aligned with divine order, and feel it real with a quiet trust.